| Born | July 2, 1906 Strasbourg, Germany |
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| Died | March 6, 2005 (aged 98) Ithaca, New York, US |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | German American |
| Fields | Nuclear Physics |
| Institutions | University of Tübingen Cornell University University of Manchester |
| Alma mater | University of Frankfurt University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| octoral students | M K Sundaresan Jeffrey Goldstone Roman Jackiw Freeman Dyson Robert Eugene Marshak John Irwin David J. Thouless P. S. Epstein Gordon L. Shaw |
| Known for | Nuclear Physics Stellar nucleosynthesis Quantum electrodynamics |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize for Physics (1967) |